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This trigpoint:
Is ranked joint 11926th with 407 other trigs (more).
Has a mean score of 5.12/10 (from 34 logged visits)
Was First logged: 23rd Nov 2007
Was Last logged: 16th Nov 2023
Of the 34 logged visits,
13 recorded a location and of these....
All were within 256m
The average error was 33m
1 was exact
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Selection of photos for this Pillar. ©Ang_argyll ©Ang_argyll ©jonglew ©jonglew ©BigNick ©thejackrustles By iainmac See 17 more in the album. |
16th Nov 2023 14:30 by Ang_argyll
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Parked in Fort Augustus and walked to Bunoich crescent, to the left of the old school building there is a path that leads behind the houses and up the wooded path. The trig is at the top of the rocky outcrop known as battery Rock. Not much in views unfortunately.
11th Nov 2023 10:57 by jonglew
Gridref: NH 37945 09615 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Damaged Score: 5/10
Parked in private parking area on a small residential estate immediately SW of the pillar. An alley led behind houses and out into woodland, good track followed to the pillar. The vanessa has multiple fractures, looking more substantial than just surface cracks, also has chipping round the top edges. Central tube has an asphalt plug. Built without a FB. No views.
Pillar TP7463©jonglew
Spider TP7463©jonglew
21st Sep 2022 11:24 by A1Mushroom
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Parking and same route as clochandighter.
16th Apr 2022 09:56 by wandering_rjt
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10
Route and views as others described.
24th Mar 2022 19:13 by clochandighter
Gridref: NH 37946 09599 FB Number: NOFB Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 7/10
Approached from southwest. Free public car park further up road at NH377096. To the left of the former school building at NH378095, from the back corner of that plot, a path leads through to the woods behind. From there it is the case of following a worn path that climbs 'Battery Rock', and the pillar is found high up in the undergrowth. The column has surface cracks but is of sound structure. The spider is plugged with asphalt and inscribed with the usual two triangles and a cross. The pillar is a 'Brander' cylinder which was built without a flush bracket, and no sight holes. The surrounding views are mainly lost to the surrounding foliage.
16th Aug 2021 20:19 by COVID Trig Point Challenge
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10
16th Aug 2021 20:19 by dharris
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10
29th Jun 2021 17:35 by FrankR
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 7/10
some cracks. looks like attempts been made to repair. no need to jungle bash any more
12th Aug 2019 12:41 by joeythecat
Gridref: NH 37944 09612 FB Number: NO FB Condition: Good Score: 5/10
1st Aug 2019 09:20 by Alancache
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Found after the geocache
6th Jul 2019 11:36 by 1473
Gridref: NH 37936 09606 FB Number: NA Condition: Good Score: 4/10
Parked in free car park further up the hill from the school house. As others go along path to left of old school building, once into the wooded area head West and up. SECATEURS NECESSARY for the last 15-20 foot. Not really any views anymore.
19th Nov 2018 09:30 by Sealf4
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10
Not many places where you can visit a couple of trigs and a lighthouse (pepper pot one at the junction of canal and Loch Ness) and have a leisurely breakfast followed by a couple more trigs before needing to move on.
19th Aug 2018 14:50 by widget
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Blimey, I found it! Many thanks to earlier loggers.
15th Jul 2018 19:23 by BigNick
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 10/10
With Luna after a convincing win at the cricket
12th Jul 2018 15:09 by nozzer
Gridref: NH 37944 09618 FB Number: NO FB Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10
12th Jul 2018 15:09 by BigJ
Gridref: NH 37945 09608 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10
Followed Vegibagger's route and much appreciated the pruning that he had done. No views. With Nozzer.
11th Jul 2018 16:19 by Moacky
FB Number: NONE Condition: Good Score: 7/10
Previous logs made access easier - up side of old school then follow the GPS into the gorse.
28th Jun 2018 11:00 by vegibagger
FB Number: NONE Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 5/10
Access is via footpath to the left of old school house up the lane then up through woods and on high point rocky outcrop surrounded by gorse. Much secateur trimming by me fot 20-25 mins has given easier access from north plus even making it visible from below to the west.
Revealed ©vegibagger
Revealed ©vegibagger
Revealed ©vegibagger
24th Feb 2017 21:22 by tummelv
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
After some initial confusion about the best route into this one we spotted the alleyway round the back of the old converted school building and we were soon puffing up the steep gorse covered hill to the trig. Managed to spot it tucked away in the gorse after a brief search, didn't even need my GPS but it did help that I had researched this one a bit before leaving the house so knew what I was looking for.
24th Feb 2017 00:00 by billygunn
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 6/10
Found whilst Geocaching.
15th Jun 2016 19:22 by dal
Gridref: NH 37946 09601 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Not easy to access. The easy bit was.getting the OK to go over the fence at the back of the house of one of the residents. Thereafter I could see no hint of a path. It took some time to find the trig, which was hiding deep in a gorse bush. My grid ref was 10m out. The other trigs I visited today within 3m. The trig is on pretty much the top, although actually deciding the highest point is not easy.
10th Jun 2016 17:00 by asbown
Gridref: NH 37940 09600 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
from the houses behind the old school, took some finding.
10th May 2015 09:45 by bluebeard
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 4/10
tgoc2015
14th Mar 2015 12:28 by thejackrustles
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10
Revisit for the geocache and to take a note of the marks
Station I collage ©thejackrustles
1st Feb 2015 15:30 by gerryu2
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Didn't realise there was a car park close by as I parked at the main tourist car park and walked up. Followed fence close to wee boggy bit, across fence and up through gorse and eventually found the trig. No flushbracket and not the greatest view.
31st Jan 2015 16:32 by thejackrustles
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 5/10
Took a while to find a way into this one, got there in the end, very hard to spot in the gorse, very snowy today too!
Mr TJR on the trigpoint ©thejackrustles
Mrs TJR at the trigpoint ©thejackrustles
Great Glen Project Station I trigpoint ©thejackrustles
28th Sep 2013 19:03 by edfielden
Gridref: NH 37945 09611 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 4/10
The old school has been converted into housing and there are additional residences at the back of the site. There is a small back alley at the NW corner of the enclosure with a gap at the end leading out to the wooded area beyond (watch out for the wheelie bins blocking the gap!) Goodness knows what the residents thought was going on as I struggled and fumbled my way up the incline behind their houses just after sunset! The woodland gives way to dead and then living gorse and despite the undergrowth my iPhone 5S's GPS held out and led me almost right to the pillar. It was a little inconspicuous at first but after a little final scramble up on to the rock I gained access. As mentioned before it is a slightly cracked cylindrical pillar with a square-ish base, but without flush bracket. I inspected all sides of the pillar despite the best efforts of the prickly gorse, and could see no trace of sightholes. The top has a tarmac plug; the usual Great Glen Project markings of two embossed triangles and a cut cross are to be found on one of the spider arms. The surrounding undergrowth prevents much of a view and the fading light didn't help either but I believe I could make out where Great Glen Project Station K / Tomamhoid (TP7381) was across the glen. Without the peculiarity of the pillar this would have been a 2. As it is it's a 4! Position logged from average of 3 GPS readings over 10 minutes. Photos to follow...
6th Nov 2012 19:14 by spidym
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 4/10
Parked at the carpark nearby and then followed fence heading north to hillock and then through some rough dead gorse to Trig. Defo a few cracks on the pillar but apart from that still standing.
Pillar Cracks easily spotted
18th May 2010 16:48 by sky high boys
FB Number: NONE Condition: Good Score: 4/10
There was a path? Never mind a machete, a chain saw would be more appropriate for the approach :-)
Gotcha!
Trig, plinth and Monastery. Monastery? Sorry I mean holiday lets....ffs.
18th Apr 2009 16:00 by Chalky
Gridref: NH 37900 09700 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 4/10
No FB, Cylindrical. Followed path up from former school.
9th Apr 2009 12:00 by iainmac
Gridref: NH 37947 09602 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Slightly damaged Score: 3/10
There is a sign up indicating path past school but I didnt see it on the ground. As Rob did I came down via the B&B - definitely the easiest and if going again would ask to go up the back of their garden and head left. Has a number of small cracks.
22nd Dec 2007 12:00 by peregrinus
Gridref: NH 37950 09600 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Good Score: 7/10
NH 37950960 estimated from 1:25k map. Brander i.e. cylindrical pillar on small square base, built without FB. Asphalt-type plug. Pillar has a network of shallow cracks. At summit of Battery Rock - once housed a gun battery but now neglected and gorse-covered. Path from SW beside what appears to be old school boarded up, then slope of dense gorse. I descended SSE to avoid gorse, via garden of a B&B! Supposedly <a short easy climb> from old school house.
26th Nov 2007 20:47 by RoPeHe
FB Number: Not logged Condition: Not Logged Score: 5/10
[non-visit log] Googling on "Battery Rock" "Fort Augustus" brought up: http://andrewabernathy.com/journal/2005/20050504britain/day05/ and, lo and behold, among the pictures there is http://andrewabernathy.com/journal/2005/20050504britain/day05/IMG_5077.medium.jpg So this is (or was) a cylindrical pillar, but I can't see from the picture whether it has a concrete base. I would estimate the location of Battery Rock as closer to NH 378 096 than NH 378 094
23rd Nov 2007 12:00 by peregrinus
Gridref: NH 37800 09400 FB Number: Not logged Condition: Couldn't find it Score: 3/10
Described by OS (info via Rod Sladen) as a Brander (= cylinder), on top of Battery Rock, Access via Old School House, NH378094. This grid ref leads to a newly constructed extension to a car park, bounded on its N side by a gorsy ridge. There are a few gorse-covered outcrops immediately to the west, around a picnic site. One rock in particular is tall and quite striking - I couldn't see a trig on top but may have missed it. The pillar could well be around here, lurking in the gorse - or destroyed when the car park was built / extended. Or the grid ref could be a bit out .... There are also supposed to be four more Great Glen Project Stations but there are no location details as of Nov 2007, and they could be in a different area of the Glen from Stations E to Q. Station B is FB 11283 and Station D is FB 11865. Station A and Station C could be pillars without FBs, or pre-existing trig pillars.